Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... took flight from the English sword , and out of this furious expulsion a Brythonic colony arose in France which played its own part in English literature . After the battles of Aylesford and Crayford in 455-57 , and for fully a century ...
... took flight from the English sword , and out of this furious expulsion a Brythonic colony arose in France which played its own part in English literature . After the battles of Aylesford and Crayford in 455-57 , and for fully a century ...
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... took Almighty God from me , and men made His grave , and sang over Him a sorrow- ful lay . The old poem , thus worked up into Cynewulf's new matter , may be distinguished by its long epic lines from the newer matter , which is written ...
... took Almighty God from me , and men made His grave , and sang over Him a sorrow- ful lay . The old poem , thus worked up into Cynewulf's new matter , may be distinguished by its long epic lines from the newer matter , which is written ...
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... took fresh life under Oswald in 634 , but they were now in Celtic , not in Roman hands . The monasteries set up were ruled by Celtic monks from Iona ; the bishops came from the same place ; the kings and princes of the Northumbrian ...
... took fresh life under Oswald in 634 , but they were now in Celtic , not in Roman hands . The monasteries set up were ruled by Celtic monks from Iona ; the bishops came from the same place ; the kings and princes of the Northumbrian ...
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... took a similar task in England he followed the methods and the practice of the emperor . When he arrived in England he sought for teachers , but found none . When he was twenty years old he heard with indignant sorrow of the destruction ...
... took a similar task in England he followed the methods and the practice of the emperor . When he arrived in England he sought for teachers , but found none . When he was twenty years old he heard with indignant sorrow of the destruction ...
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... took up the history of The 29 England and wrote it in Latin ; but the English Chronicle remains for English literature the most ancient and venerable monument of English prose . After the Conquest . The Norman Conquest put an end to Old ...
... took up the history of The 29 England and wrote it in Latin ; but the English Chronicle remains for English literature the most ancient and venerable monument of English prose . After the Conquest . The Norman Conquest put an end to Old ...
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